git-svn not a git command?

Question

While attempting to get an old svn dump of a project under git control, I ran into an interesting problem. Whenever I run git svn, I get an error saying it isn

Answer 1

On CentOS I used

sudo yum install git-svn

Answer 2

Under my system I've had this trouble:

$ git svn
Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 29.

because I don't have Subversion Perl bindings installed. Try installing them and running the command again.

Answer 3

I had the same error under Cygwin 1.7. It was solved by installing the git-svn package with Cygwin setup.

Answer 4

Had a similar problem on RHEL6, i.e.,

Can't locate Git/SVN.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 25.

My solution:

sudo yum install subversion-perl
chmod 755  /usr/local/share/perl5/ (and sub dirs, as they were only readable by root)

Answer 5

I just check on my newly installed ubuntu box and it wasn't installed even with git-core installed. A simple:

sudo apt-get install git-svn

or your distro equivalent should fix it.

Answer 6

MacPorts version:

port install git +svn

(Note: you likely need to port deactivate git first)